In the new day and age when we all live amongst numerous different cultures, it would be very small minded to only learn issues close to the individual.
What I think is that everyone needs a general knowledge of different cultures and backgrounds. When we entre the big scary world of work, there may not be a job which is catered for all our preferences and would involve having a wider knowledge than of the one we would have which is based around ourselves.
As we have all been raised at taught different cultures and backgrounds, for instances from the right of the start of secondary school we had French or German lessons for the majority of us.
So in the end if this was to ever happen in the world of education, not only would there be a digital divide but also a educational divide as those who looked at a broader range will have a higher knowledge than those who chose what to study.
However a way of making this broad range of studying more enjoyable and tailored to some extent would be to spread of the learning to different forms of media, such as text, moving image and of course the internet.
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Prensky's work -and the focus of these weeks hasn't been curriculum content has it? So, in that context, the question about 'tailoring' probably has a sense related to Prensky's notion of delivering education through digital games because that's what 'natives' prefer, don't you think?
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